First make the mulled wine base. Heat a large saucepan and add the sugar and all remaining ingredients, add a splash of the wine just to cover and simmer rapidly so mixture is of a syrupy consistency.

Next add the pears, the remaining red wine, then bring to a simmer and cover with a disc of grease proof paper and simmer the pears until just soft - this will take around 12 minutes.

Remove from the heat and remove the pears and ingredients and set aside in a container.

Place the gelatine leaves in cold water to soften then take 500ml of the mulled wine and drain through a sieve into a clean pan. Warm up on the hob and squeeze the excess water from the gelatine and stir into mulled wine until dissolved then remove from heat.

Chop the poached pears into even bite size chunks along with the apple and place with the blackberries and clementine segments into the base of a roughly sized 20cm/8inch trifle/pudding bowl.

Squeeze over the juice of half a lemon, mix the fruit with your hands then lay over sponge fingers to roughly cover the fruit then pour over mulled wine/jelly. Cover with cling film and set in fridge for 1 and a half hours or until jelly is set.

Spread custard to cover the jelly, fruit and sponge, then using a whisk fold the mascarpone and icing sugar with the soft whipped cream until smooth. Place into a piping bag and pipe peaks all over the custard.

Finally grate the white chocolate all over and add a touch of dark grated chocolate too if you desire. When serving garnish with fresh mint leaves for extra colour and dig in!